[arin-ppml] 2010-8: Rework of IPv6 assignment criteria

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 00:00, David Farmer <farmer at umn.edu> wrote:
....
> Furthermore, very large hierarchical end-user networks, especially for a
> large multinational corporation, are not precluded from considering
> themselves as an ISP or LIR, and then starting with a /32 and being able to
> avail themselves of HD-Ratio.  That might be more appropriate anyway, the
> networks for large multinational corporation with many independent business
> units, probably have much more in common with ISPs then the majority of
> other end-user networks.

I believe for many "large" end-users, this is the most logical approach.

The posture child in a previous e-mail thread was HP.  While
I have no idea how HP networking operates internally, my
first thought is that it is likely they are more like an ISP/LIR
in that they provide service to their BU's/departments/whatevers
and delegate address ranges to those groups for their
uses.

I would like to be sure that ARIN policy make it easy for such
"end-users" to consider themselves ISP/LIRs (/32) where
appropriate and justified.

Gary